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Pete Connolly

Pete Connolly writes about ideas, culture, politics, literature, film, and other things worth a second look. He also publishes Something More Than Paternity on Substack.
by | Oct 30, 2025

The controversy surrounding Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s tattoo is still making the rounds among the chattering classes. In…

by | Oct 25, 2025

Baseball’s most illustrious player, two-way star Shohei Ohtani, is once again in the spotlight — coming off perhaps the most…

by | Oct 21, 2025

Once again, the blinding bubble surrounding the New York Times readership shows the rift between our two Americas. Alan Sepinwall,…

by | Oct 17, 2025

Remember in late 2023, when the self-assured figures of Claudine Gay (Harvard), Liz Magill (UPenn), and Sally Kornbluth (MIT) were…

by | Sep 27, 2025

Political violence has the country on edge. Polls indicate that Americans view the current climate as primarily due to a…

by | Sep 23, 2025

Too many minds have been colonized by contaminated ideologies; in turn, we, as a society, have become dangerously immature. Dietrich…

by | Jan 19, 2024

Edmund Burke, a central figure in conservative thought, is sometimes quoted as saying, “By gnawing through a dike, even a…

by | Dec 20, 2023

The etymology of nostalgia traces back to the Greek word nostos, meaning “homecoming.” Sounds nice. However, the suffix algia denotes…

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